This database includes high potential projects and companies in the environment and energy sectors based and working primarily in Switzerland, founded or active since 2000 and still operational. The maturity phase ranges from initial concept (formation or validation) up to those that are trying to capture a larger market space (growth and then established).
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| Company Name | Founding year Canton Phase | Areas of Activity [Subareas] | Technology |
|---|---|---|---|
| Novamem (DrinkPure) |
2013 ZH growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management | Filters & Membranes, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Novamem is the first company to use state-of-the-art technology to produce micro- to nanofiltration flat sheet membranes made from almost any polymer. Since 2018 a water filter is produced, which cn fit on any tab, to provide drinking water | |||
| Novaton |
2010 ZH growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Transport & Mobility [ Electricity, Engineering ] | Climate technologies, Grid: Efficient power transmission or distribution, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| NOVATON builds sea worthy NOVA Solar Islands of various sizes - floating solar islands, rotate for optimal sunlight to industrial energy production; In addition they devloped NOVACAT, a solar operated autonomous surface vehicle to navigate autonomously on high seas and other water surfaces | |||
| OHANA Move |
2018 ZH growth |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps [ Functional clothes, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology, Waste recovery, recycling and re-use |
| OHANA Move is an environmentally friendly active wear label from Switzerland. We produce sportswear that consists of almost 80% recycled PET bottles. For one leggings from our production 25 PET bottles are needed. It is OHANA Move's highest concern to design trendy clothing that breaks new and environmentally conscious ground. Our reversible two-in-one clothing can be worn on both sides and is therefore doubly individual. | |||
| onCyt Microbiology |
2017 ZH growth |
Health & House & Body Care | Bio technologies |
| Our hard- and software add-ons turn the bench-top flow cytometer that you already own and trust, or the one that will meet your needs best into a fully automated on-line sampling and measurement device. We combine the best of two worlds by providing smart automation add-ons to established flow cytometers with known high performance. | |||
| Optical Additives |
2006 BE growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production) [ Electricity, Energy management solutions ] | Photovoltaics, Solarthermal energy |
| Optical Additives GmbH's product ZeoFRET® is a brand new, revolutionary additive for transparent polymers. These polymers then serve as a light harvester. The harvested light is transferred to a solar cell and transformed into electricity. | |||
| Optor |
2014 BE growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Optor AG is a specialist for complex planning and optimization problems. In many cases, productivity can be significantly increased by targeted optimization of operating processes. Our optimization software ODS is the ideal tool to realize this potential quickly, easily and cost-effectively, e.g. for power industry: Smart Grid: Optimized load control for your network or lower costs thanks to optimized purchasing and warehousing. | |||
| ParkU |
2012 ZH growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Road vehicles and transport ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| ParkU equips you with everything you need for the perfect parking experience. Search for and find parking spaces near you, or at your destination. Reserve parking spaces in car park garages at hourly, daily, weekly or monthly rates. Easily pay for all your transactions directly from your phone. In Switzerland not all functionalities are available | |||
| Perspective Robotics (Fotokite) |
2014 ZH growth |
Transport & Mobility [ Natural hazards & catastrophe prevention & protection ] | Drone & flight |
| Fotokite designs, manufactures, and supports tethered aerial video streaming systems for Public Safety teams to gain situational awareness in firefighters and first responder teams. | |||
| Pexapark |
2017 ZH growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Electricity, Information technology ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Pexapark enables better renewable energy sales in subsidy-free markets through a combination of software tools and PPA transaction services. We provide developers & operators with revenue management, hedge risk analysis and optimization capabilities and enable them to participate the open market with the confidence of full energy sales & trading compliment. Our award-winning PexaQuote provides the standardized pricing methodology across the range of PPA contracts, term lengths and asset types. Sellers and buyers execute PPA transactions with our advisory service. Last but not least, we connect producers and off-takers, provide historical deal trends and reduce search costs through our community platform PexaConnect. Together they form a seamless platform to better enable renewable energy sales. | |||
| PHYSEOS |
2011 VS growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Energy efficiency ] | Construction : Increase efficiency or renewable energy use., Renewable technologies |
| Physeos focuses its activities on sustainable development and energy efficiency in the built environment and industrial processes. Physeos provides solutions to reduce the need for investment in energy infrastructure, cut fuel costs, increase competitiveness and improve consumer welfare. Main activities: • Energy optimization in buildings and industrial processes, • Building physics, numerical simulation, • Distributed energy production systems, • Education and training for professionals. | |||
| Pickwings (nanio) |
2012 VS growth |
Climate technologies & mitigation & CO2-reduction, Transport & Mobility [ Maritime and waterways transport, Resource efficiency, Road vehicles and transport, Transport & logisticsof goods ] | e-cargo, e-mobility, Fleet management, IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| DIGITAL TRANSPORT SOLUTION FOR COMPANIES AND INDIVIDUALS IT software and plattform to organize transport. The challenges of new and modern transport solutions have grown steadily in recent years in the area of the shipping industry. With the developed solution from Pickwings, the shipping and transport industry is able to make the transition to digital change. The Pickwings business model is designed to use the unloaded mileage of the transport companies in order to enable a CO2-optimized shipment of goods on the road. | |||
| Plair |
2014 GE growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Environmental monitoring ] | Measuring & monitoring e.g. environemental data |
| Plair SA develops and manufactures professional systems for preventive environment monitoring. Proprietary state-of-the-art technology forms the basis of Plair’s intelligent detectors that provide high-quality and continuous environmental measurements in all weather conditions. | |||
| Planted |
2019 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail ] | Bio technologies |
| Planted produces food products from plants, that replace meat, taste good an contain healthy ingrediants. Only a handful of carefully selected ingredients go into Planted: pea protein, pea fiber, sunflower oil and water. | |||
| POWERGIA |
2013 ZH growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption, Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis [ Electricity efficiency ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| POWERGIA GmbH provides access to an liberalised electricity market for large consumers | |||
| Precision Vine |
2016 VD growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Environmental monitoring, Farming & agriculture, Information technology ] | Drone & flight, IT data usage |
| With a focus on improving wine quality, Precision Vine works with growers and winemakers to collect and analyze remote-sensing data and assist in integrating the information acquired into specific management plans. We offer high-resolution hyper/multispectral aerial imaging and associated vineyard specific data services to address vineyard heterogeneity, vine balance, irrigation management, harvest planning, disease mapping, nutrition needs, maturation curve and more. | |||
| Qualysense |
2010 ZH growth |
Food, Farming or Forestry [ Food production & retail, Forestry ] | Enabling technologies |
| QualySense develops high-end solutions for a safe and sustainable food supply. By pioneering single-kernel analysis, combining two sensing technologies - QualySense is helping seed breeders, food companies and inspection agencies to achieve excellence in nutrition, health and safety. | |||
| R&D Cycling |
2017 VS growth |
Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Recreation, Sport ] | Communication, e-bike, Low technology |
| Au cœur des Alpes valaisannes, R&D Cycling a développé une plateforme unique de compétences complémentaires et un réseau d'exception au service de la création d'événements fédérateurs, du développement de produits innovants et d'une offre de services d'excellence. | |||
| reCIRCLE |
2015 BE growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management, Recreation, hotels & restaurants [ Catering, Waste & recycling ] | Low technology |
| RECIRCLE is a national take-away network that uses washable containers with RECIRCLE lids to prevent waste. | |||
| Redelec |
2007 VS growth |
Clothes, Textiles, Wearables devices or apps, Industrial process & manufacture (technology usefull for many areas) [ Resource efficiency ] | Filters & Membranes, Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| RedElec Technologie develops and markets a new technology to perform electrochemical redox transformations at the best economic and environmental costs, directly on the production site. The electrochemical reduction of indigo aqueous suspension in the dying industry is the first industrial application of the process developed by RedElec. | |||
| reech |
2012 GR growth |
Construction & buildings, Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity, Engineering ] | Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| Renewable energy engeineering, with main focus on photovoltaics; As an innovative Company for Photovoltaic, they combine R&D, analytics, maintenance and consulting | |||
| ReWinner Atlman |
2016 ZH growth |
Construction & buildings, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource efficiency, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| ReWinner maximizes product and material reuse with an online plattform. All business goods, like furniture and kitchen or bath item or windows, etc. can be traded via the plattform rewinner.ch. | |||
| RINO Electronics (Eisspeicher) |
2003 ZH growth |
Energy production & distribution & storage (incl.tool production), Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Electricity, Energy storage, Heating and cooling energy ] | Biomass based energy (biofuels, biogas ..), Energy storage other than batteries, Heating in buildings, Photovoltaics, Renewable technologies |
| New technologies are being tested within the framework of this demonstration plant. Energy supply for old farmhouses; combination of hybrid solar modules with earth register and ice storage. | |||
| Rubbish Design |
2016 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Waste & recycling ] | Wearable devices or apps |
| Our products are crafted from used sails, kitesurf, paragliding or each kind of toy you could use to fly and play with Nature. They cannot longer be used for their original purpose, but still offer great features. Strenght, colours, graphical design, texture. | |||
| Samro Technik |
2013 BE growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Cleaning ] | Physical & chemical & nano technologies |
| Samro Technik AG has been dealing with the electrolysis of water by means of boron doped diamond electrodes for years. The resulting change in the water (ECA water) and the generation of other compounds allow a wide range of applications. | |||
| Securaxis |
2015 GE growth |
Finance, Insurance, IT or Data Analysis, Transport & Mobility [ Information technology, Mobility & Fleet management ] | IT data usage |
| Securaxis provides people travelling and working in hostile or volatile environments with geo-localised and mapped security information in real time. It has all the necessary features for the security management of people in at-risk contexts: headcount, alerts, geofencing, on demand tracking, group management, documentation for duty of care. | |||
| Sensorscope |
2009 VD growth |
Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Environmental monitoring, Information technology ] | IT data usage, Smart device |
| Sensorscope is an IT company with a strong know-how in radio communication, hardware/software engineering, and database technologies, that applies cutting-edge data collection technology to wireless monitoring. | |||
| Sharely |
2013 ZH growth |
Behavioural change, Environment, sustainability & hazard prevention management, Natural resources, Material efficiency or Recycling & Waste Management [ Resource sufficiency, Service pooling, Waste & recycling ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Plattform to enable local community sharing all kinds of products, online plateform. | |||
| Signa-Terre |
2008 GE growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Electricity efficiency, Energy efficiency ] | IT-platforms or networking solutions, e.g. portals |
| Energy audits and analysis for building energy use; Signa-Terre SA specialises in the energy monitoring of existing buildings and in assisting project owners in renovation/construction projects. Our objective is to identify the potential energy and financial savings of buildings and to propose solutions adapted for this purpose. | |||
| simplee |
2017 ZH growth |
Energy usage, efficiency & prosumption [ Bodycare, Energy efficiency ] | e-mobility, e-vehicle charging |
| We offer you the easiest way to get started with sustainable loading solutions. This requires good planning, intelligent products, scalable billing plan standards and transparent communication along all project stages. From the analysis, through a uniform and scalable charging concept to the implementation of the installation, we are at your side and that of all other parties involved. | |||
| SkyCell |
2012 ZH growth |
Health & House & Body Care, Transport & Mobility [ Transport & logisticsof goods ] | Cooling technology, Internet of Things, IT blockchain or algorithms, Sensors |
| SkyCell is a provider of temperature-controlled container solutions with a special focus on serving global pharma companies and sustainability. They are driven by their mission to supply the safest pharma containers worldwide. This is achieved through their unique combination of hardware, software and service. | |||